Marshall Thundering Herd

All throughout this week's Conference USA media days were posters and images featuring the teams and players. Each school was represented, yet the player who was featured most prominently was Western Kentucky quarterback Brandon Doughty. The large poster showed Doughty with his right arm outstretched, football in his hand, just before he released a pass. Perhaps Doughty threw a touchdown on that pass. This season, conference members expects to see Doughty complete a plethora of passes for a plethora of touchdowns. The coaches voted Doughty, who played at North Broward Prep, as the league's preseason offensive player of the year. He's coming off a season in which he threw...

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